July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to Nasa

Re:July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to Nasa by mikeash on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @11:03AM (#12344267)

The point is that the faucet, in this analogy, is not contributing to the overflow. The natural inflow from the faucet is matched by a natural outflow from the drain. The surplus is the problem, not the absolute inflow.

Of course, turning down the faucet would still help. But in this analogy, the faucet is jammed on, but the kid might stop if you ask him the right way.

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Re:July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to Nasa by caseysoftware on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @01:46PM (#12345724)

So your assertion is that the planet is a perfectly steady state, static system?

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Re:July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to Nasa by mikeash on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @03:10PM (#12346563)

Almost. Right now, the drain is actually emptying the tub faster than the faucet is filling it. Atmospheric CO2 is increasing at a lower rate than CO2 is being released by humans, because natural sinks are absorbing a lot of it. It was fairly stable, on human timescales, before we started adding our own input.

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